Julie Walters

Essay #2 Censorship and Banned Books A person that challenges a book so it will get banned is foolish, ignorant ,and absurd. The American Library Association defines a Challenge to literature as an attempt by a person or a group of people to have literature restricted or removed from a public library or a school curriculum . Challenging a book is making a book more famous, because people now become curious and wonder why it's being challenged. People that want a book banned and decide to…

Walter Dean Myers’ Monster: Does Prison Make Steve a Monster? Creep. Psycho. Thug. Monster. The moment a mugshot appears on the six o’clock news, viewers make assumptions about the person in the photo. In a court system based on the premise that all men are innocent until proven guilty, people are quick to assume the worst about each defendant before the trial begins. In Walter Dean Myers’ novel Monster, Steve Harmon is on trial for his alleged role in a robbery that ultimately led to the…

People who are exposed to combat in war will change their entire lives. In the novel, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, the story is set during the Vietnam War. The story includes a character named Richie, who has been drafted to war at a very young age. The novel shows how soldiers who go to war change because they are exposed to new experiences. Fallen Angels shows how people who go to war become a different person through religion. It also shows people changing in war by showing soldiers…

at home. Fallen Angels is a book written by Walter Dean Myers about the hardships of the Vietnam War. Myers in known for his accurate, detailed and sometimes graphic depiction of the War. The setting of Vietnam gave Richie experiences that changed him mentally and emotionally. Such as, seeing some of his friends killed, to having to push through being controlled by a racist commander, and believing his bad knee will keep him from actually fighting. Walter Dean Myers uses the setting of the…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

The poem “Good Hours” by Robert Frost is a poem that alludes the feeling of solitude and loneliness to its readers. Frost himself faced a great deal of heartbreak in his time. While “Good Hours” is one of his lesser known poems, it is no doubt beautiful and artistic in the least. Much like almost all of Frost’s poems, this poem uses nature to reveal and analyze the narrator’s feelings. Renowned poet, Robert Frost, in his poem, “Good Hours”, describes a scenic walk through a village on a winter…

time, worked to raise funds for cancer research and through her efforts and campaigns, President Nixon passed the National Cancer Act of 1971. With more funding and public support, cancer research was optimistic and promising. Until one day in 1974, Walter Nelson Rees, a cell culture expert discovered widespread contamination of cell lines by HeLa. HeLa cells were so aggressive that even the slightest contamination would render a cell culture useless (Culliton 1974). By this time, HeLa was so…

a murder, is Steve Harmon, a 16 year old with African heritage. He is tried for being a lookout for a drugstore robbery that resulted in the murder of the store owner, Mr. Nesbitt. This particular trial is set in Manhattan in the novel written by Walter Dean Myers, Monster. Many people’s first impression of Steve is a typical teenager capable of making foolish decisions. However, some believe that Steve is a conscious young adult who is aware of his actions and is therefore guilty of murder…

Introduction: In Dallas Texas police were in a standoff with sniper that killed five officers and still was on the loose looking for his next victim, the police were still negotiating with the gun man, when they sent in a robot to kill the gun man. The robot kills the gun man, but people were asking why use a robot to do the killing for them? Today I will be talk about three things as if why did the police use a robot to kill the gun man. First why did they have to use it, second did the police…

In order to become successful in this industry, I must first earn a degree in Broadcast Journalism. I plan to attend Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to receive a well educated degree. They are known for having an innovative broadcasting program that keeps all students updated on the most recent techniques for newscasting. This business is undoubtedly an atmosphere of working for what you want and working your way up to the top. In the…